“I know the secret: Rock’n’roll is a teenage sport, meant to be played by teenagers of all ages—they could be 15, 25, or 35. It all boils down to whether they’ve got the love in their hearts, that beautiful
María del Pilar:Having grown up in Van Nuys, I had always wanted to write a song that had to do with all the things that I saw while I was growing up. Include the diversity of it and the wackiness of it, but then also have a little social context and politics to it. How does ...
“If we’d asked a piano player to interpret these changes then had an arranger orchestrate them, it would have somehow obscured what is actually happening here. Which is that I’m running these songs through my process. There are some that it works with and some that it doesn’t – the...
And then there’s “You’ve Got to Give Me Some,” a bald faced reading of the bawdy Spencer Williams blues standard that wasoriginally recorded by the great Bessie Smith. A big part of Salvant’s book to this point has been taking standards and reading them deeply through a woman’s p...
parenting muscles unstretched. I don’t even own a pet. And while I’m not worried about likingmykid — I’ve seen the sonograms; he’s got badass written all over him — I know he’s going to grow and make friends with other peoples’ kids. And that thought gives me a headache...
Whenever we pick roses it’s the thorns that worry us the most. It almost always makes us forget how beautiful the rose truly is just like love. A song to remind you how beautiful love can be if you just let it in, Kalpana manages to take you on an aural as well as visual trip ...
This jazz song is a challenge to play at fast tempos due to the parallel minor seventh chords that move in minor thirds at the end of the A sections.Check out:Chick Corea, Miroslav Vitous, and Roy Haynes –“Trio Music – Live in Europe” (1986) John Coltrane –“Lush Life” (1961)...
I am so grateful that we got to deal with my grandmother’s illness and death without wrangling over the question of whether she wanted to end her life, or whether loved ones wanted her to put a stop to her suffering, or whether doctors thought that the most prudent course. We were so...
though, that Sting really hit his stride, notably with the release of 1993's "Ten Summoner's Tales," which featured the hits "If I Ever Lose My Faith in You," "Fields of Gold," and 1999's "Brand New Day," which went triple platinum and earned him a Grammy Award for Best Pop Al...
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